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Planetary Science: The Time Machine
Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.
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Meteorites Hold Secrets of Earth’s Formation
Scientists attempting to better understand the formation and the present-day layering of planet Earth have turned to ancient meteorites...
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New Planet Found, Smaller Than Earth, Orbiting Distant Star
Thirty-three light-years away, in the constellation Leo the lion, astronomers say they have found a world considerably smaller than...
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Why Is Earth So Dry?
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and...
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Solar System Ice: Source of Earth’s Water
Scientists have long believed that comets and, or a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the...
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Probe Reveals Ice Content of Moon’s Shackleton Crater
Up to 22 percent of the surfaces of Shackleton Crater, located near the moon’s south pole, may be water...
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What the Amazon Looked Like Before Columbus
Ancient people had minimal, if any, impact on the outlying forests of South America’s Amazon Basin, and settlements near...
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Findings of Deep-Sea ‘Alien’ Hunt Revealed
Swedish explorers have put to rest speculation of a spaceship at the bottom of the Baltic — but they’re...
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Alien Earths May Be Widespread in Our Milky Way Galaxy
Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed...
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CERN Scientists Excruciatingly Close to Discovering Higgs Boson
Physicists investigating the make-up of the universe are closing in on the Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to...